RSSSTAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe SF 527 – IA Finance Authority Rent Subsidy Program SF 532 – Flood Mitigation HF 649 – Health & Human Services FY12 Budget FLOOR ACTION: SF 527 appropriates $658,000 from the General Fund to the Iowa Finance Authority (IFA) in FY12 for the Rent Subsidy Program. This is a new General [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe SF 511 – Judicial Branch FY12 & FY 13 SF 517 – Economic Development FY12 Budget SF 525 – Mental Health System Redesign SF 527 – IA Finance Authority Rent Subsidy Program HF 646 – Administration & Regulation FY12 & FY13 HF 651 – Civil War Sesquicentennial License Plates HF 658 [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe SF 481 – Mental Health System Redesign HF 646 – Administration & Regulation FY12 Budget HF 651 – Civil War Sesquicentennial License Plates HF 658 – Certification of Milk COMMITTEE ACTION: SF 481 sets the parameters and process for the redesign of the system for adults with disabilities. The adult disability services will [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe SF 512 – Indigent Defense FY11 Supplemental HF 642 – Transportation Budget FLOOR ACTION: SF 512 provides an $18.55 million FY11 supplemental for indigent defense costs, including $2.55 million for the State Public Defender’s office. This supplemental is also contained in SF 209, which is currently in conference committee. The Senate [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe SF 508 – Federal Block Grant FY12 SF 509 – Ag & Natural Resources BudgetFY12 SF 510 – Justice Systems Budget FY12 SF 511 – Judicial Branch Budget FY12 SF 512 – Indigent Defense FY11 Supplemental SSB 1199 – Economic Development Budget FY12 FLOOR ACTION: SF 508 authorizes the receipt and [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe SSB 1185 – Federal Block Grant SSB 1192 – Ag & Natural Resources FY12 COMMITTEE ACTION: SSB 1185 authorizes the receipt and expenditure of federal funds totaling $6.3 billion for Federal Fiscal Year 2012 (FFY12). This is a decrease of $735.4 million compared to FFY11. Iowa will receive $196.3 million in [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe SF 301 – Save our Small Business Fund SF 328 – Ed Jobs COMMITTEE ACTION: SF 301 relates to the Save Our Small Business Program, which provides low-interest loans to eligible small businesses (i.e., 35 or fewer employees) to promote the creation and retention of jobs in Iowa’s economy and to [...]
Read the full story >>The Senate remains focused on job creation. All seven job creation measures introduced so far by Senate Democrats survived the first legislative funnel.
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe HF 45 – Budget Transparency & FY11 Deappropriations FLOOR ACTION: HF 45, as passed by the House, is a deappropriation and supplemental appropriation bill for FY11 and repeals a number of standing appropriations for FY12 and FY13. The bill makes a number of changes to Iowa’s budgeting laws. Some of the [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Theresa Kehoe SF 209 – Internal Revenue Code Updates, EITC Increase, and Supplemental Appropriations HF 45 – Budget Transparency & FY11 Deappropriations COMMITTEE ACTION: SF 209, as amended, is the annual Internal Revenue Code update bill. The bill couples with all Internal Revenue Code changes effective January 1, 2010, except bonus depreciation, which [...]
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